By admin | September 9, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (31)

The contents of the SAS data set PERM.JAN_SALES are listed below: VARIABLE NAME TYPE idnum character variable sales_date numeric date value A comma delimited raw data file needs to be created from the PERM.JAN_SALES data set. The SALES_DATE values need to be in a MMDDYY10 form. Which one of the following SAS DATA steps correctly […]

By admin | September 9, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (30)

A raw data record is shown below: 07Jan2002 Which one of the following informats would read this value and store it as a SAS date value? A. date9. B. ddmonyy9. C. ddMMMyy9. D. ddmmmyyyy9.

By admin | September 9, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (29)

The following SAS program is submitted: libnametemp ‘SAS-data-library’; data work.new; set temp.jobs; format newdate mmddyy10.; qdate= qtr(newdate); ddate= weekday(newdate); run; proc print data = work.new; run; The variable NEWDATE contains the SAS date value for April 15, 2000. What output is produced if April 15, 2000 falls on a Saturday? A. Obs newdate qdate ddate […]

By admin | September 8, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (28)

The following SAS program is submitted: data work.report; set work.sales_info; if qtr(sales_date) ge 3; run; The SAS data set WORK.SALES_INFO has one observation for each month in the year 2000 and the variable SALES_DATE which contains a SAS date value for each of the twelve months. How many of the original twelve observations in WORK.SALES_INFO […]

By admin | September 8, 2009

SAS Certified Base Programmer 123 Questions (27)

The following SAS program is submitted: data revenue; set year_1; var1 = mdy(1,15,1960); run; Which one of the following values does the variable named VAR1 contain? A. 14 B. 15 C. 1151960 D. ‘1/15/1960’